Psalm 39:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Behold

As nothing

Psalm 89:47

2 Peter 3:8

Verily

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Isaiah 40:30

Bible References

Behold

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

As nothing

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Verily

When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

All the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

General references

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall.